Adrienne and I got panda bears for Christmas one year. That same year, I also got a set of tinker toys. The tinker toys were wrapped, but the bear was sitting under the Christmas tree unwrapped. A cowboy named, Otis, who worked for Adron, told me, teasingly, that the round box of tinker toys was a big shell to shoot the bear with.

 The Christmas tree, a juniper from the breaks, was decorated with small candles that were attached to the tree with small clips, similar to the ones pictured below.